On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 22:49 -0800, Patrick P Korsnick wrote:
> i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've
> found that if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will
> still work. i tried to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad
> blocks, but it didn't work.
So, Richard Elling will likely have data but I have anecdotes:
I've seen two cases of disk failure where errors only occurred during
random I/O; all blocks were readable sequentially; in both cases, this
permitted the disk to be replaced without data loss and without
resorting to backups by doing a "dd" bit image copy to the replacement
drive.
Dunno how much you value your time or the data which will be stored on
this machine but my reflex would be to replace the disk rather than
spend a lot of time working around its failings.
- Bill
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